Answer the questions.
Choose what describes your usual self, rather than your ideal self. You can pause, return and revise.
Ocean Test
Discover Your Big Five Personality
There's more to your personality. Dive in.
Answer 50 questions about your everyday habits and get your Big Five personality scores. The test takes about 7 minutes, and your results are free.
- Public-domain IPIP questions
- About 7 minutes
- Free scores & explanations
Select your
questionnaire.
Both tests include free results and downloads.
Which profile
sounds like you?
These eight illustrated profiles describe different combinations of traits. Your results show which, if any, fit your scores.
The Idea Explorer
Enjoys new ideas and leaves room to change plans.
Personality in
everyday life.
Learn what each trait measures and how it can show up in daily life.
Openness
Curiosity, imagination and new experiences.
Conscientiousness
Plans, habits and getting things done.
Extraversion
Social energy, activity and expression.
Agreeableness
Trust, consideration and working together.
Neuroticism
Emotional sensitivity and responses to stress.
You have a score on every dimension. These scenes illustrate traits, not fixed personality types.
How the test
works.
These questionnaires use public-domain IPIP items. You describe your everyday tendencies; we calculate your scores using the published positive and reverse scoring keys.
The quick test looks at five broad dimensions. The deep test uses Johnson’s 120-item inventory to add six facets within each one.
Read about the ocean personality test ↗Get your scores.
Receive five 0–100 scores and a visual overview. The deep test also includes 30 facet scores.
Read the explanations.
Scores summarize your answers. They do not compare you with other people or provide a clinical diagnosis.
Understand your results ↗Dimensions
and types.
The Big Five describes degrees of a trait instead of assigning everyone to a personality type. A quieter person and a more outgoing person can share plenty of other tendencies.
Big Five vs MBTI: explore the difference ↗Reader’s
questions.
What is an ocean test?+
An ocean test describes five broad personality traits: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. You receive a profile across dimensions, rather than a fixed personality type.
Which test should I choose?+
Start with 50 questions for a broad overview in about 7 minutes. Choose 120 questions for five traits and 30 narrower facets in about 15 minutes. The questionnaires are separate; you do not need to finish the quick test first.
Are my results free?+
Yes. Both tests include free scores, explanations, and a download. Sign in to take a test; saving your results is optional.
Is a score of 75 a percentile?+
No. A score of 75 describes your responses on a rescaled 0–100 scale. It does not mean you scored higher than 75 percent of people. These tests are for reflection, not clinical diagnosis.
Where do my answers go?+
Answers and progress stay in this browser tab for up to 24 hours. They are sent to our server only when you choose to save an assessment to your account. Saved assessments can be deleted.